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Posts:January 2021, Uncategorized
Managing Volatility: What’s Ahead for Financial Services
by Becca Cooper| January 29, 2021
We’re only a month into 2021, but already the year is taking shape for financial services. The stock market is on a retail-investor-fueled rollercoaster, with Redditors taking on short-sellers, creating unprecedented volatility. The pandemic and subsequent lockdown spurred a digital reckoning, forcing brands from large banks to small fintechs to quickly reevaluate how they interact […]
How President Biden’s First 100 Days Will Affect Your Organization’s Communications Approach
by Corinne Gudovic| January 21, 2021
Inauguration Day marked a change in our country’s leadership, and with it the promise of several swift policy transformations. Within hours of taking office President Biden took immediate action on several issues from pandemic management to social justice to environmental policy. The changes announced today, and those still anticipated, will have a dramatic impact on […]
What Food Marketing and Comms Pros Should Know—and Do—About the New Dietary Guidelines
by Lisa Bruno, MS, RD and Dylan Bailey, MS, RD| January 19, 2021
In case you missed it, the U.S. Departments of Agriculture (USDA) and Health and Human Services (HHS) released the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs) in the typically quiet week between Christmas and the New Year. The DGAs are critically important for food policy decisions and will shape the general guidance on consumer eating patterns […]
Striving Toward Dr. King’s Beloved Community
by Lindsay Wagner| January 18, 2021
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. often spoke of the “Beloved Community.” As described by The King Center, the memorial resource center and institution founded by Coretta Scott King: “Dr. King’s Beloved Community is a global vision in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth. In the Beloved Community, poverty, hunger and […]
Five Social Commerce Megatrends in China
by Prince Zhang| January 4, 2021
Social commerce has deep roots in China, where it continues to demonstrate impressive growth as the rest of the world increasingly adopts its strategies. The recent Double 11 Shopping Festival—an annual consumer event held by China’s top e-commerce platforms—provides ample proof. Alibaba generated RMB 498 billion (USD $76.1 billion) in gross merchandise value with 26% […]
